Question

Define what is meant by 'outcomes research'. - How do outcomes research effect health care costs? - What role does the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) play in assuring quality & safety in healthcare?

Answer 1

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Outcome Based research mainly focus about how certain health care facilities like treatment , practice , regualr cheack up and other agencies impact on patient life as well as health care industry . There is number of health policies formulated on the basis of outcome Based research . For example , what is best strategy to treatment of cardiovascular patient where open heart surgery or medication . So , to understand immidiate effect of treatment and find out best possible way for treatment of patient is main purpose of conducting outcome Based research . It only takes not only considerations of cost effective but also other key factor . Outcome Based research always focused on best effective result and having realistic goal orientation .

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it magnificently helps in cost of health care care resaerch . It always focus on end result of treatment. It determined actual coast for specific diseases .it is completely patient centered and greatly helps in taking decision on regarding cost-effective . For example , a patient estimated expenses for open hurt surgery is 2 lakhs . But after proper conducting outcome Based resaerch , it could more be 1.50 lakh rupees . Because when we conducting empirical study about outcome of actual treatment , then we understand which areas needs to spent much amount of money where needs less amount . It also helps to compare cost effective with different facilities that provide to the patient .

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AHRQ ,is agency which main role to provide equal , effective , assessible , Quality based health care facilities in U.S.A. it main role is to enhance health care safety . It always focus on high performing health facilities in different ways . It invest lots of money on resaerch for conducting resaerch to improve health care facilities specially in safety and quality .

It also prepared diffrent content and short term pogramme for continuous proffesional development and provide training to health care proffesional for maximum utilization of resource and system wise improvements.

Collection of data for tracking and evaluating health care conditions. and provide desirable suggestion for it's better improvement .